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MARK_VANDERBENT
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Feb 20, 2014

Truck trends one year with ecoboost 14 mpg average

Interesting all this mpg talk and how the ecoboost is so good on fuel, and last issue of truck trend had a wrap up on them with truck for a year. They said good things about truck but what caught my a...
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MARK_VANDERBENT
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Feb 23, 2014
Yes it shifted to get better fuel mpg than the ecoboost. Funny people think if a trans shifts in and out that it must be weak. If that truck was put into 4th gear with cruise set it would have not shifted and then had equal fuel milage as ecoboost. GM programs trans to shift in and out to achieve best mpg.

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